On the Publication of a Telegram Reporting the Pamphlet by Parvus[2]

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To Comrade Molotov (for members of the Politbureau)

Ipropose that an inquiry be made as to who was responsible for publishing in
our newspapers the other day a telegram giving a summary of Parvus’s
writings.

Whenthe guilty party has been ascertained, I propose that the

				ROSTA[1]manager of that department be severely reprimanded and the journalist
directly responsible should be dismissed, for only a perfect fool or a
whiteguard could use our newspapers for advertising such a scoundrel as
Parvus.

Decision of the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)March 11, 1922

ThePolitbureau recognises that the publication of such a
telegram was improper, as it gave the impression of advertising Parvus, and
the editors of Party and Soviet news papers are directed to refrain from
publishing such telegrams in future.

[1]ROSTA—RussianTelegraph Agency.—Ed.

[2]Lenin’snote to the Politbureau followed the publication on February 2,
1922, inIzvestiaof a telegram from Warsaw reporting the gist of
Parvus’s pamphletDer wirtschaftliche Rettungswegin which its
author justified the annexationist plans of German imperialism in the East,
plans for colonial enslavement of thepeoples of Soviet Russia. There, in Eastern Europe, Parvus wrote, “the way
is open for German expansion, for German might, for German thrift”.

Lenin’smotion was adopted by the Politbureau on February 8 After
investigations into this matter the Politbureau passed a decision on March
11, 1922 (see the next document).